Who is Gennady Gorin. Grigory Gorin biography

The wonderful writer would have turned 70 today.

Playwright, prose writer, satirist and screenwriter, author of the plays "Memorial Prayer", "A Plague on Both Your Houses!", "Jester Balakirev", "The House That Swift Built" and scripts for the films "The Same Munchausen", "Oh say a word to the poor hussar”, “Formula of love”, “Kill the dragon” - Grigory Gorin passed away in June 2000. On March 12, he would have turned 70 years old. About how Gorin was in the texts and in life, with his close friend, playwright Viktor Slavkin, the Izvestia columnist talked.

Izvestiya: How did your friendship start?

Viktor Slavkin: We grouped around the Yunost magazine, and everyone met there: Arkanov, Gorin, me. Grisha was the most optimistic and cheerful. He reproached us for the fact that we complain - they say, we "do not write." He said: "Sit down in the morning, start writing - and everything will go!" And he moved early on from humor to stories that have a psychological element.

and: Did Gorin always "write"? Didn't complain that "it doesn't work"?

Slavkin: Complained, of course. Since he mainly dealt with theaters, there was everything. It's difficult in the theaters - there is the main director, the main artist ... We called this the "problem of the second act." He always wrote the first act quickly and well. And in the second, for some reason, he began to analyze himself. Since, as you know, the second act should be stronger than the first... I remember that he quickly found a common language with everyone. There was such a case - several people, including Arkanov, Gorin and Shirvindt, bought a fishing hut in Valdai. And there was a farmer who had a boat. He became very friendly with Grisha, but he understood that Grisha was a man of a different educational qualification. And then Arkanov told me that this boatman approached him and asked: "Tell me, please, is it true that Grigory's patronymic is Izrailevich?" He replies: "True." "And he won't be offended if I call him that?" - "Do not be offended," - said Arkanov. And then he began to call him Grigory Izrailevich.

Gorin was always so disposed towards a person that little interfered with him. For example, he lisped a little. And he made a variety number out of this, which he read with great success. Thus, he did not give the opportunity to joke evilly on himself, since he himself was the first to joke on himself. The number was called - "Shepelyavochka". This is a valuable quality of a comedian - not to go into introspection, but to splash everything out. And they, of course, with Zakharov were a serious support to each other. Although this, of course, did not exclude difficulties.

Q: What kind of difficulties were there?

Slavkin: Ordinary - a person writes and thinks: "What am I writing? It's not interesting." And he needs another person who would tell him: "Old man, everything is fine." Here they had such a tandem. I know Dragon didn't work. Zakharov began to make it himself. Then Grisha joined in, and then it worked. I'm not saying that Grisha pulled everything out, but they had an enviable respect for each other. And they mutually protected each other from walking in the wrong direction.

and: And how would you characterize Gorin the playwright?

Slavkin: Grisha had a moment when he really wanted to write a modern play: in a modern language, about a modern problem. He suffered, suffered - and wrote, the play was called "Phenomena". But at some point, he stopped these torments and said: "You know, I realized that mine is when I develop a fantasy on the theme of some classical work and get a new work as a result." And when he realized this, he began to write even better. Recently a thick book called "The Gorin Theater" has been published. He created this kind of theatre.

and: Gorin gained a reputation as a satirical writer in wide circles. To what extent did this correspond to his self-perception?

Slavkin: He was sometimes worried that everyone was thinking: Gorin came out - that means you have to laugh. But thanks to his dramaturgy, he made people not only laugh, but also be sad and cry. This is a normal feature of a creative person who believes that one should try to do something that has not yet been done. He has stories written by a prose writer. But I can't say that he hated himself as a comedian. He was a very witty interlocutor, a man with an optimistic charge. True, shortly before his death, he once said: "Something grabbed my heart, I decided to sit at home today." He had those moments too.

and: There is another widespread opinion that people who are used to making the audience laugh are rather sad in life. Does this apply to Gorin?

Slavkin: He was pretty sad too. It cannot be said that he always poured jokes and wit. Sometimes he plunged into melancholy, was dissatisfied with himself. But when friends appeared around him, he again turned into a cute Grisha Gorin, who jokes. He often had sad eyes. No wonder the phrase about "the sad eyes of Gorin" appeared. In many wisdom, many sorrows. Sometimes it happened that he was joking, and this joke had a deep sad meaning, and then it was fun again. Therefore, his texts live to this day.

and: Can you describe any situation that would best characterize Gorin-man?

Slavkin: He was an avid professional fisherman. And I'm just an amateur. Once we went fishing with him to the village of Sknyatino - quite far from Moscow. We took fishing rods, booze, food and drove off. At night we had to get off the train. We were told that this was our stop and we got off. When the train began to move away, we realized that we got off in the wrong place. Left alone in the middle of Russia. We went into the hut where the ticket office was, but there was no one there. So what are the fishermen doing? Opened a bottle of vodka and drank. Grisha began to show me his new fishing rod, they had fun. And suddenly his eyes became sad in Gorin's way, and he said: "You know, old man, what a blessing that we got off in the wrong place. We will remember this night for the rest of our lives." And so it happened.

Grigory Izrailevich Gorin can safely be called a true master of the word of our time. The talent of the writer is reflected in dozens of humorous and satirical stories and novellas. Gorin successfully worked on theatrical plays. Films shot according to the script of the writer, to this day remain the viewer's favorite film masterpieces.

Childhood and youth

Grigory Gorin joked that as a comedian he was born on March 12, 1940. On this day in the Moscow maternity hospital, Grisha's mother gave the world a talented boy in the future. Gorin's real name is Ofshtein. His father devoted himself to the army, served as a colonel and went to the front during the Great Patriotic War. Mother is an emergency doctor. She, or rather her maiden name - Gorinskaya, served as a prototype for the pseudonym chosen by the author, which the writer had to take in order to get editors' approval more easily.

As the satirist himself noted, the pseudonym is an abbreviation for "Grisha Ofshtein Decided to Change Nationality."

The passion for literary creativity manifested itself in little Grisha early. At the age of seven he began to write poetry. Gorin recalled that in the age of total propaganda, the children's mind caught on the fly a popular topic for creativity. Those naive children's poems were dedicated to the struggle against capitalism and glorified the greatness of the proletariat. The young talent was even shown. And he, having listened to the inspired Grisha, remarked with a smile that a brilliant satirist would grow out of the boy.

As a schoolboy, Gorin continued to write stories and short comic skits about friends, comrades and school days. And when it came time to choose a future profession, the writer entered the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute, which he successfully graduated in 1963.

Following in the footsteps of his mother, for four years Gorin worked as a doctor in the ambulance service, where, as he himself said, he went through a real school of life. Later, the master of the word wrote that the Soviet doctor is a unique specialist who treats without drugs, operates without instruments and prosthetics without materials.

However, the love of creativity did not disappear anywhere, and Grigory Izrailevich continued to write all the time. His stories and feuilletons were published in popular magazines and newspapers. And under the pseudonym of Galka Galkina, the writer for some time headed the department of humor in the magazine Yunost.

In 1960, the humorist's story was published in the authoritative Literary Gazette, along with the works of already recognized Soviet writers. Of course, over time, literature ousted medicine from Gorin's life. Although he successfully noted that the writer remained a physician all his life - as soon as Gorin appeared on TV, reading works, the headache passed without a trace.

Literature and creativity

The first book of the writer "Four under one cover", written together with other prose writers, appeared in print in 1966. This year is marked by the release of the comedy "All over Europe", co-authored with. Since that time, friendship and a close creative union of two brilliant comedians began.

In addition to short stories, feuilletons and short stories, Gorin created sparkling plays, performances of which were successfully staged. Later came the turn of cinema and screenplays. In cinema, the satirist worked in tandem with the director.

The director said that Gorin was endowed with an exceptional gift - to take an old, well-known plot as a basis and fill it with modern meaning. This is what the playwright did when writing the play “A Plague on Both Your Houses”, in which he brilliantly completed the history of the Montague and Capulet families after death and.

A special place in the writer's work is occupied by the work on the screenplay of the film "The Same Munchausen". Initially, Gorin wrote the play "The Most Truthful" based on the distant motives of the work of R. E. Raspe about. Mark Zakharov, having seen and appreciated the production, suggested moving the action to the movie screen. The play was significantly revised, and the result was a two-part film, which was later disassembled into quotes by an enthusiastic audience.

No less significant was the script for the film "Formula of Love". The film retained only the main characters of the story of Count Cagliostro. Initially a gloomy and sad short story, with the light hand of a talented screenwriter, turned into a fervent, but thought-provoking novel. The writer's works were just like that: at first glance - funny and funny, but always hiding a sharp topic for reflection.

The writer also appeared on television as a presenter. In 1978-1990, he often participated in the humorous program Around Laughter. In the 90s, the author was invited as a permanent member of the jury of the Major League of the Club of the cheerful and resourceful. Together with Gorin, he was the founder and constant author of the White Parrot Club. After the death of Yuri Vladimirovich, he conducted the club's broadcasts for some time.

Personal life

The family life of Grigory Gorin passed along with his loving wife Lyubov Pavlovna Gorina (nee Kereselidze), a purebred Georgian, editor of the Mosfilm film studio. Family photos unconditionally testify to the warm relationship between the spouses. They were always considered a beautiful couple, and the house was full of Gorin's friends and colleagues.

In one of the interviews, the woman shared the story of meeting her future famous husband. After graduation, the young girl worked at the Name Library. Such a place of work involves an abundance of books and reading. There Lyubov Pavlovna read one of Gorin's first stories. And then correspondence acquaintance accidentally grew into a personal one. The girl's friend asked to keep company on the way to that very Gorin - the time was later, and she needed to repay the writer's debt.

Then they played a wedding, with which the newlyweds practically fled to the Baltic states. They wanted this holiday to be just for them. A banquet was organized for friends and relatives, at which the newly-minted married couple was absent.

So they lived together all their lives, supporting each other and remaining friends and close people.

Death

The writer passed away quickly and unexpectedly. In the sixty-first year of his life, three months after his birthday, on the night of June 15, 2000, Grigory Gorin died in his apartment. The cause of death of the great satirist is a heart attack and a massive heart attack.

The wife of the great writer and playwright suffered the departure of her husband hard. Lyubov Pavlovna admits that this was an unbearable blow for her, after which she even tried to commit suicide. The widow survived her adored husband by 15 years, Gorina died in 2015.

The memory of Grigory Izrailevich still lives in the hearts of fans, in films and works that appeared thanks to the talent of the author. After Gorin's death, documentaries and TV shows dedicated to his life and work were filmed, as well as a lot of interviews with colleagues and co-authors, who warmly remember their comrade.

Bibliography

1970 - “I want kharcho!”
1973 - "Little Comedies of the Big House"
1973 - Bullfighter
1974 - "Forget Herostratus"
1975 - "Solo for a duet"
1978 - "Who's Who?"
1986 - "Comic Fantasy"
1990 - "The same Munchausen"
1994 - "Formula of Love"

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Grigory Izrailevich Gorin (at birth bore the surname Ofshtein; March 12, 1940, Moscow, USSR - June 15, 2000, Moscow, Russia) - Russian satirist, playwright, screenwriter, TV presenter, author of a number of literary and journalistic articles.

He laughed it off: "Do you know how Volodya Voinovich deciphered my pseudonym? Grisha Ofshtein Decided to Change Nationality."

And when they asked if he had any thoughts of leaving, he answered: "I was born in Moscow, I love this corner of it and will not leave voluntarily. And if they come for me - arrest or exile - I will shoot back!"

After graduating from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov in 1963, he worked as an emergency doctor for several years. “The Soviet doctor,” Gorin wrote, “was and remains the most unique specialist in the world, because only he was able to treat without medicines, operate without instruments, make prosthetics without materials…”

It was a special higher educational institution, where they taught not only the sciences, but the wisdom of life. And they did it in the most fun way possible.

I remember, for example, our head of the department of obstetrics, Professor Zhmakin, who set students approximately the following tasks at exams:

"Imagine, colleague, you are on duty in the emergency department. They brought a woman. Eight months of pregnancy. Contractions began ... The waters broke ... The light went out ... The midwife ran for the fitter ... The pressure drops ... The hostess lost her keys from the procedural room ... The head was summoned to the district committee for a meeting ... You are in charge! What will you do, colleague? We turn on the stopwatch ... Think! That's it! The woman has died! You are in prison! Release yourself - come to the re-examination! .. "

Then it seemed to us Jesuitism. Then, in practice, we became convinced that our life can set tasks even more difficult, and if a doctor does not maintain a sense of humor in any situation, he will destroy both the patient and himself ...

He began his literary activity by composing sketches for the student's "Club of the cheerful and resourceful." From the 1960s, he actively appeared in print with feuilletons, humorous stories and sketches. For some time he was in charge of the humor department of the Yunost magazine, led a popular column on behalf of Galka Galkina. Repeatedly published humorous stories in the department of humor "Club of 12 chairs" of "Literaturnaya gazeta".

Gorin's first publication appeared in 1960 on the sixteenth page of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, which traditionally was devoted to satire and humor. Grigory Gorin published his first story in the journal Yunost, while still a student at a medical institute. Success came quickly and for a long time. His works were heard in popular humorous radio programs, where he worked as a junior editor of the satire and humor editorial board, artists performing from the stage would definitely read something “from Gorin”. In 1966, Gorin decided to try his hand at dramaturgy and, together with Arkady Arkanov, wrote the comedy Wedding for the Whole of Europe, then Medium Fluffy Domestic Cat, Little Comedies of a Big House, and Banquet. In 1970, the premiere of his play “Forgetting Herostratus” took place at the Theater of the Soviet Army, which for a long time went on this stage with unflagging success. For almost 25 years, Grigory Gorin collaborated with the Lenkom Theater, many scripts were written together with Mark Zakharov. Together with him, the playwright worked on creating plays and films that the audience loved.

By the early 1970s, Gorin had published several collections of plays and short stories, and he decided to devote himself entirely to literary work. In the future, he created more than a dozen plays, the most famous of which are "Til", "The Most Truthful", "Phenomena", "Farewell, Entertainer!", "The House That Swift Built", "Funeral Prayer", "Royal Games", "KIN IV", "Plague on both your houses", "Jester Balakirev". He is the author of scripts for the films "The Same Munchausen", "The House That Swift Built", "Formula of Love", "Kill the Dragon", "Say a Word About the Poor Hussar".

At the very beginning of perestroika, Gorin turned to Shvartsev's "Dragon". In the title of their film - "Kill the Dragon" - the indefinite form of the verb was read, in accordance with the time of the slogans, as an imperative mood. In approaching the original source to momentary political realities, G. G., unusually for himself, "fell to the ground", and yet, unable to resist, completed the finale, which, in Gorin's way, became contrary to the generally accepted pathos. The Dragon, or the Ghost of the Dragon, or the One Who Was a Dragon Yesterday, or the One Who Will Become a Dragon Tomorrow, launches a paper dragon with the kids. Knight Lancelot cannot challenge this Lord Nobody to a duel yet - evil dissolves in the future, it is still indefinable and unprovable. The film ends with an ellipsis - a sign of punctuation and polyknowledge, multiplying sadness.

In 1965, in collaboration with Arkady Arkanov and composer Konstantin Pevzner, the Orange Song was written for the 8-year-old Georgian performer Irma Sokhadze. Subsequently, this popular song was in the repertoire of many performers, including Marina Vladi with her sisters, Anastasia Stotskaya and others.

In 1978-1990, Grigory Gorin regularly took part in the programs Around Laughter. In the early 1990s, he was invited to the jury of the Major League of KVN.

In recent years, he was a regular participant and author of the White Parrot program, and after the death of Yuri Nikulin, he was its host for some time.

Grigory Gorin died suddenly on the night of June 15, 2000 from a massive heart attack. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

On the day of his funeral, June 19, an advance copy of the sixth volume of the “Anthology of Satire and Humor of Russia of the 20th Century” came out of print, which included all the best that the playwright had written in his entire life, including the last play “Jester Balakirev”. Gorin himself called his plays comic fantasies. The people in them are both funny and tragic.

“I had a stormy youth, and I got married only at the age of 30”

“I have arranged anniversaries for so many friends that I don’t have the strength for myself”
- Why did you decide to celebrate your anniversary in the air, leaving those wishing to congratulate and drink to your health on the ground?

I will put it this way: I have arranged anniversaries for so many friends that I no longer have the strength for myself. From some years I began to understand that on your birthday you can’t rob yourself. No wonder you were born on this day, it brings you to certain results. And if it is a round date, then doubly so. Therefore, the first thing is not to vulgarize. I celebrated all my family dates extraordinary. It started with a wedding. When I got married, I said: “Lyuba, do not be offended, but I will not sit at our wedding. I can’t listen to banal toasts - I’ll go crazy.” And it is difficult for a Georgian woman to agree to this, they have traditions. Well, they have it, and I have that way.

You can not deprive the guests of the wedding table, otherwise they will think that you are a miser. “So we set the table, drink the first glass, do “bitter”. After that, we say: dear guests, I'm sorry, we have a train in an hour. We did just that. The wedding was completely blown away by our impudence. Then it turned out that they had great fun without us. And we got on the train and left for Tallinn. And then a lot of times on family and anniversaries, I tried to disrupt the usual order of things. They must be extraordinary.

Agree. But the public, represented by television, should still celebrate this date ...

Now I have an insane amount of calls, everyone is asking to come: both radio and television. But I severely limited this flow. There will be several normal programs - in the Ostankino concert studio, in the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. I suggested: guys, let's make the return of Munchausen, but not to the ordinary world, but to the circus. Everything is just true. The baron must fly to the moon. And for free, Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky, the last People's Artist of the Soviet Union, soared under the dome. Then Mark Zakharov invited the author to the arena with a crazy idea. And I appeared with a huge boa constrictor on my shoulders. Before leaving, I ask the trainer: “Won’t he accidentally strangle me?” “Don’t worry,” he says, “we fed him before that.”

So what, did the taming go well?

Yes. Inna Churikova worked with lions and tigers, but at a distance, Abdulov and Farada rode horses. But Yarmolnik, who played the son of Munchausen, got it. Lenya drove out in a typewriter with trained monkeys, who, it turns out, do not like terribly when they are imitated. And then Yarmolnik, dressed up, like the orangutans, did not give one of them a piece of candy. No one thought they were so vindictive. And then in the dance, this offended monkey is completely unexpected, jerky, straight cool Walker, as you will give him an eye. Yarmolnik cries, and the audience laughs - they thought that it was necessary. In general, all this madness could only happen in a circus. But the result turned out well.

Sure thing, you figured it out. But, perhaps, where you are going to fly a little closer than the moon?

I am incredibly lucky - my father is still alive, who turned 95 in December. I told him: “Dad, don’t celebrate. Let's celebrate two anniversaries in March." And on March 12, I will get on a plane and fly to America. For the first time I will celebrate my birthday in the air - it's beautiful. And then the old man and I will go and sit in some restaurant on the ocean and have a drink. And stay at home - by five o'clock I will be full of vodka and complacency, they will leave the presidential administration: "Let me read out a congratulatory address" - well, what will it be?

"I don't fit into the American film industry"

Are you going to America this time only to rest? You used to read lectures at the university there, and then I know that you have enough scenario ideas for two Hollywoods. And now they are in a crisis in this regard ...

Americans don't like scripts by Russian authors. We do them differently than in America. We write: “Morning. Petrov woke up in a gloomy mood. The gray sky leaned towards the earth. Americans won't even read it. They should have written: “Large - the sky, Petrov’s left foot went down from the bed, found slippers. Petrov's remark... "They do not consider scripts to be high creativity. Cinema should be visible - this is the first thing. Second, it must be calculated immediately. If you want sunrise, then how: in kind or in the pavilion?

Just like in the feuilleton of Ilf and Petrov: “Large: the bare breasts of the cocotte Clemence. Panorama: Count Sukhoveysky in white trousers is enjoying life on Primorsky Boulevard. Large: The count knocked the countess over on the chest and began to woo her.

Yes, it's a director's script. That's why I don't fit into the American film industry. Here they came to me from America, they want to make a film about Mikhoels. I said: "If you want an American script, I immediately refuse." “No, you make us a“ skeleton ”, and then an American sits down and paints all this frame by frame.” My remarks matter, “I got up thoughtfully, as if forgetting ...” It was Andryusha Mironov who once said to me: “What did you write? “Everything swirled, and the sky mixed with the earth ... “How to do this?” I say: “You are the director - you decide. I thought my remark would inspire you."

Well, how then, in case of success, and your plays always have it, how to share the glory with the director?

You and I once said that we don't write good things. We only read them, it's just that everyone has their own task. After me, the director comes and comes up with a visual image of the performance, then Stupka will come and play it completely in his own way. My words help him, but on his own behalf he contributed a lot to Tevye, and I think that this is one of his best works. I am happy that he played my play, this is the recognition that is dearest to me. I have different confessions. I’m walking down the street, and towards the “new Russian” blurs: “Oh,“ White Parrot ”! And yesterday, on the set of this program, a boy from Ivanushki International came up in a knitted, wild-looking hat and said: “You know, I cried twice at the Memorial Prayer. And he even became nice to me.

Where do your dates with the Muse take place: in Moscow or, perhaps, in your hut in Valdai? By the way, did you take those blankets that we bought in the department store "Ukraine" there?

Yeah! First they went to a nearby dacha in the Moscow region, then to Valdai. Warm, good blankets, what you need. And in general it's wonderful. The village loves me, and I love the village. Well, it is no longer possible to retire for creativity. At first, Eldar Ryazanov was my neighbor, then Abdulov also bought a house, and now Yankovsky wants it too.

I see that the population of Usadye is seriously replenished at the expense of Moscow stars.

Because in Moscow everything is available, everything is nearby, but there is no buzz.

I understand you. In Moscow, he pressed the button, and the water went, and there he pressed it - and he went with a bucket. And you think easily and ask eternal questions… What are you guided by when you have to answer them?

I listen to intuition. There are two minds in man -- just a mind and a master mind. Just the mind for rational decisions, and the main one would be better called intuition. This is the wisdom that your ancestors and your people have been developing for centuries. And all this sits deep inside you. Every person at least once in his life catches himself on a strange instinct that refutes the logic and arguments of reason: something I don’t want to do this now ... This is the voice of intuition. And our whole trouble is that we do not trust him. And trust is a big thing. There is such an anecdote: the Chukchi are asked why he votes for Zhirinovsky. And he says, "But he promises well." “But he will deceive.” - "Deceive later, promise now."

“I worry when I sit in an expensive restaurant and they treat me”

How are your relationships with money built: who is in command of the parade?

Money is a difficult topic. With my mind, I began to approach this very condescendingly, and the fear, that one, the old one, left over from the old days, works a little. He lived in a communal apartment, the scholarship was 20 rubles - these disasters in the brains of our generation were deposited quite deeply. Therefore, when I go to the market, I ask, “How much are potatoes?” and they answer me “Two rubles”, I burst out: “Are you crazy ?!”, although I don’t even know what these two rubles look like. I still worry when I sit in an expensive restaurant and they treat me. Here in the south of France, on the coast, there are very expensive restaurants where the menu is without prices. This is done on purpose - prices are given only to the owner, to the one who invited. And the guest should not choose treats and wines by price. I got really pissed off because of this.

It is bad when there is no money, they give a certain freedom. Means allow me, for example, to buy a very expensive car. But the next minute I ask myself: why? What will it give you, besides what they will know - Gorin drives a Mercedes. In Russia, this generally turns into a disaster - all the policemen stop you. Another anecdote on the topic. The guy went to work as a security guard, he was given a gun. A month has passed, he is not for a salary. They ask him: “Kolya, why don’t you come for money?” And he: “I didn’t know. I thought they gave me a gun, now turn around as you want.

You recently celebrated another anniversary - 30 years of family life ...

I had a stormy youth, and I got married only at the age of 30. Lyuba became my fan, not because I was handsome, young, thin, but because I read my first stories and plays. She has an amazing gift that is not found in many women: she knows how to listen, this is an Aquarius trait. I did not have such an intimate friend to whom I would run with a bottle and a new play. I read everything to her. In my opinion, she adequately copes with a rather difficult task - to remain herself, not to turn into a writer's wife, on which you test your character. This is not an easy fate.

Now we will talk about it. Yesterday I opened a Moscow newspaper and saw the headline "Berezovsky's fate is in the hands of Grigory Gorin." The beginning is something like this: after a long stay abroad, Berezovsky returned to Russia in a depressed mood. His comrades-in-arms betrayed him, Berezovsky fell into despair, took to drink and, in a fit of depression, cut his throat ... I was terribly happy about this news. Does this mean that you have resumed work on a grandiose project about the Ukrainian composer Maxim Berezovsky?

Yes, after a long break, some progress has been made again. Composer Alexei Rybnikov came to the recording of the TV show for my anniversary, he said that he wanted to show an excerpt. I thought he would sit down at the piano and sing. And Lesha brought 65 people - a choir and an orchestra, and they performed the final part of the opera, on which we are working together. It was like a requiem, I haven't heard such music for a long time, I even got goosebumps.

The libretto is based on the story of a man named Berezovsky, who is said to be a great composer. I can judge this at least by the fact that in competitions with Mozart he received the highest score than Wolfgang Amadeus for his works when he passed the exam to the academy. In Italy, Berezovsky became interested in a woman, the Russian princess Tarakanova, in whose salon he played, and dedicated brilliant music to her. And Count Orlov, on the orders of Catherine, was to take Tarakanova to Russia. To do this, he played in love with the princess, said that it was he who inspired the musician. Tarakanova felt something was wrong and did not want to board the ship. Then Orlov ordered Berezovsky: "Play!" and the woman went. There really is such music that you can not resist. Then she went to hard labor, and Tsarina Catherine paid Berezovsky, but said: “Destroy this music. I won't be able to listen to it because it is dedicated to my rival." Berezovsky took to drink and committed suicide. That's the whole plot. And then, already in our times, a certain representative of the devil comes to a modern composer who is looking for a musical theme and says: “Notes, like manuscripts, do not burn, and your task is to remember the music that has disappeared.” The composer is afraid to get involved with this subject: an incomprehensible type with glasses, the name Berezovsky ...

And the name and patronymic is not Boris Abramovich by any chance?

Well, only the surname appears. In order for the composer to remember that music, the fate of his predecessor is prepared for him, he also falls in love with a woman, goes this way, and at the end he has the lost music. This story is also about the struggle of a man with the devil, whom he defeats. The first stars of the Bolshoi Theater and Lenkom are involved in our project. We wanted to make it for the opening of the Bolshoi branch. But Rybnikov said that he was afraid to write for Berezovsky, because the audience would think that this was his music. I replied, “This is where you suppress your vanity. If you read music from the sky, there is only one author, and he is at the top. I've been writing this all my life. Try it! And he succeeded.

I want to hear this music, from which it is impossible to resist!

I will write and send to you.

Grigory Izrailevich Gorin(at birth bore the surname Offstein; March 12, 1940, Moscow, USSR - June 15, 2000, in the same place, Russia) - Russian satirist and playwright, screenwriter, TV presenter. Author of a number of literary and journalistic articles. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2002, posthumously).

Grigory Gorin was born into the family of a soldier, participant in the Great Patriotic War, head of the operations department and acting chief of staff of the 150th division of the 3rd shock army, Lieutenant Colonel Israel Abelevich Ofshtein (1904-2000). Mother, a native of Proskurov, was an emergency doctor. She had a maiden name Gorinskaya, his pseudonyms originated from this surname - first Gorinstein, then Gorin. When asked about the reason for choosing such a pseudonym, Gorin replied that it was just an abbreviation: “ G risha ABOUT fstein R yesil And change n rationality". After graduating from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov in 1963, he worked as an emergency doctor for several years. “The Soviet doctor,” Gorin wrote, “was and remains the most unique specialist in the world, because only he was able to treat without medicines, operate without instruments, make prosthetics without materials…”

He began his literary activity by composing sketches for the student's "Club of the cheerful and resourceful." From the 1960s, he actively appeared in print with feuilletons, humorous stories and sketches. For some time he was in charge of the humor department of the Yunost magazine, led a popular column on behalf of Galka Galkina. Repeatedly published humorous stories in the department of humor "Club of 12 chairs" of "Literaturnaya gazeta".

In 1966, a collection of humorous stories "Four under one cover" was published, which included works by A. Arkanov, G. Gorin, F. Kamov and E. Uspensky.

In 1978-1990, Grigory Gorin regularly took part in the programs Around Laughter. In the early 1990s, he was invited to the jury of the Major League of KVN.

In recent years, he was a regular participant and author of the White Parrot program, and after the death of Yuri Nikulin, he was its host for some time.

Grigory Gorin died suddenly on the night of June 15, 2000 from a massive heart attack. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

Family

Wife - Lyubov Pavlovna Gorina (nee Kereselidze), editor of the Mosfilm film studio, Association of Musical and Comedy Films. She died on August 26, 2015 at the age of 74.

Creation

Dramaturgy

1966 - "Wedding for the whole of Europe", in collaboration with A. Arkanov
Banquet, co-authored with A. Arkanov; delivered in 1968
"Little Comedies of the Big House", co-authored with A. Arkanov; in 1973 staged at the Moscow Theater of Satire
"Toreador", in collaboration with A. Arkanov; delivered in 1973
"Solo for a duet", in collaboration with A. Arkanov; delivered in 1975
1970 - "Till", based on the Flemish folklore and the novel by Charles de Coster; in 1974 staged at the Lenkom Theater by Mark Zakharov, in 2015 - a play directed by Alexander Mikhailov at the Free Space Theater for Children and Youth (Orel).
1972 - "Forget Herostratus!"; in 1972 staged at the Theater. V. F. Komissarzhevskaya
1974 - "The most truthful", about Baron Munchausen; in 1979, Mark Zakharov filmed the film "The Same Munchausen"
1977 - "Who is who?"; teleplay staged by Mark Rozovsky
1980 - "The House That Swift Built"; in 1982, Mark Zakharov filmed the film of the same name
1984 - "Phenomena"
1985 - "Farewell, entertainer!"
1989 - "Domestic cat of medium fluffiness", together with Vladimir Voinovich; in 1990 Konstantin Voinov filmed the film "Hat"
1989 - "Memorial Prayer", based on the works of Sholom Aleichem; in 1993 staged at the Lenkom Theatre, TV version in 1993
1991 - "Kin IV"
1994 - "A plague on both your houses!" Based on Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet"
1995 - "Royal Games"; in 1995 staged by Mark Zakharov at the Lenkom Theater
1997 - "Happy-Unhappy"
1999 - "Jester Balakirev"; in 2001 staged by Mark Zakharov at the Lenkom Theatre, TV version in 2002

Screenplays

1974 - "Stop Potapov!" (based on the story of the same name, published in Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1972)
1976 - "You - to me, I - to you!" (together with Alexander Sery)
1976 - "One hundred grams for courage" (short story "What impudence!")
1978 - "Hedgehog" (short)
1978 - "Velvet Season" (together with Vladimir Pavlovich)
1979 - "The same Munchausen"
1980 - “Say a word about the poor hussar” (together with Eldar Ryazanov)
1980 - "Naked Kurentsov" (short)
1980 - "Incident at the Factory No. 6" (short)
1984 - "Formula of Love", based on the story of Alexei Tolstoy "Count Cagliostro"
1985 - "Dear Pamela"
1986 - "My dearly beloved detective" (together with Arkady Khait)
1988 - "Kill the Dragon", based on the play by Evgeny Schwartz (together with Mark Zakharov)
1991 - "Andrey", a film-monograph about Andrei Mironov (together with Alexei Gabrilovich)

Screen adaptations

1985 - Goldfish (teleplay)
2005 - “Accident at the Factory No. 6”, (based on the story of the same name, short film, dir. Andrey Tsvetkov)
2011 - "Hedgehog", (based on the story of the same name, short film, dir. Alexandra Tsareva)

Bibliography

I want food! M., 1970
Little comedies of the big house. M., 1973 (co-authored with A. Arkanov)
Bullfighter. M., 1973 (co-authored with A. Arkanov)
Forget Herostratus. M., 1974
Solo for a duet. M., 1975 (co-authored with A. Arkanov)
Who is who? M., 1978
Comic fantasy. M., 1986
The same Munchausen. M., 1990
Love Formula. Yekaterinburg, 1994